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Quotes About Taste

I suppose that I was a kind of consultant for taste. Is it good taste? Or bad taste? I had an attention to detail, to what would tell best the story. Because many people get excited about the work and drift off from the story.
~ John Hench
In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism.
~ Christian Lacroix
My own personal taste in films as a member of the audience was not completely in line with films I was doing.
~ Rick Moranis
I don't let it bother me too much if someone doesn't like me. I just figure there's no accounting for taste. It's not me, it's my acting. It's like if someone doesn't like someone's food, they just don't like my acting.
~ Anna Chlumsky
I was once married to a woman who could eat anything and tell you what was in it: the most complicated recipes. Her memory of taste - now that's what I call memory!
~ Morton Feldman
I think probably Australians have just a little more taste than most people.
~ Neil Diamond
I don't limit my taste. There's some jazz that I like and there's some opera. I've been listening to what was essentially country music, but it crossed over to rock.
~ Rick Moranis
Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility.
~ Jonathan Miller
My folks have played everything from rock, disco, pop, funk, and blues. My dad has always brought and played different genres like jazz, classical, and Latin. With all this in my pocket, I feel I have a taste of everything for my influences.
~ Haley Reinhart
The thing about all my food is that everything is a remembered flavor. Maybe it's something I had as a child or maybe it's something I had in Milan, but I want it to taste better than you ever thought.
~ Ina Garten
Since I got married my wife doesn't really let me wear anything that I used to because she says I have no taste at all.
~ Dominic West
I love inventive food, but I want the classic dishes to taste like how I remember them. I get a little bummed out when there is too much fancy stuff going on and it doesn't resemble the original dish at all.
~ Drew Barrymore
My first taste memory is pickle. Even as a kid, I was really weird. I liked chillis. I used to climb up the shelves in my grandmother's pantry. The pickle jar was kept right at the top. One time, I dropped the jar and it broke. I was totally busted.
~ Padma Lakshmi
We're in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people's musical taste.
~ K. D. Lang
I think decor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about the aesthetic way I have chosen to tell their story.
~ Pedro Almodovar
I don't know how to do the other, so I won't even consider television until the audience's taste changes.
~ Mary Tyler Moore
Chocolate's okay, but I prefer a really intense fruit taste. You know when a peach is absolutely perfect... it's sublime. I'd like to capture that and then use it in a dessert.
~ Kathy Mattea
People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
~ Samuel Butler
I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.
~ Saul Williams
Back then, as a kid, you made a choice of who you liked, and it was either us or 'Take That.' And if you liked 'East 17', it showed you knew what was going on, you were clued up, had better taste in music.
~ Brian Harvey
Newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say they have no taste. But you will still go out of business over time. A newspaper is not a public trust - it has a business model that either works or it doesn't.
~ Marc Andreessen
The people on 'Quintuplets' were great, but I wasn't a producer on that show, and it wasn't exactly my taste.
~ Andy Richter
You know, we don't have any decorative sprigs of rosemary; we're not placing little matchstick radishes onto an hors d'oeuvre... The food's gotta taste good. The concept's gotta taste good.
~ Nadia Giosia
In terms of having a business, I wanted to let it go beyond what my personal taste is. Basically, I'm in a kilt and a white shirt every day. So, you know, I don't have a lot of scope, and I'm really picky about what I wear.
~ Marc Jacobs